Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jonathan Lisecki
Starring: Charlie Barnett | Christian Coulson | Dulé Hill | Jenn Harris | Jonathan Lisecki | Matthew Wilkas
Bruce says: “In Provincetown I described GAYBY as a gay Judd Apatow film, thinking that was a terse description. I did not mean my comment to be pejorative in any way but it did prevent at least one friend from
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Carlos Carcas | Norberto López Amado
Bruce says: “Norman Foster is one of the greatest living architects. His Reichstag in Berlin, the British Museum, the London gherkin, the Bilbao subway, the Hearst building in New York and the HSBC headquarters in Hong Kong are all worldwide
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christian Byers | Marton Csokas | Morgana Davies | Tom Russell
Chris says: “In rural Queensland, Australia, Peter, a father of four suffers a fatal heart attack while driving and hits the enormous tree next to his house. Soon, his wife Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and 8-year-old daughter Simone (Morgana Davies) sense
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Gunn
Starring: Ellen Page | Gregg Henry | Kevin Bacon | Liv Tyler | Michael Rooker | Rainn Wilson
Diane says: “I read conflicting reviews of SUPER. One called it ‘an unwieldy mix of juvenile jokery and attempted pathos that just doesn’t pay off’ (SF Chronicle); another ‘the second coming of the avant-garde in indie film’ and ‘occasionally brilliant’
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Starring: Aaron Poole | Jill Hennessy | Martha Plimpton | Peter Stormare | Stephen Eric McIntyre
Michael says: “Peter Stormare gives a remarkably restrained performance as a small-town cop trying desperately not to give in to a violent past while investigating a local murder that touches close to home. Echoes of FARGO abound, in this economically
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Dick Maas
Starring: Caro Lenssen | Egbert Jan Weeber | Escha Tanihatu | Huub Stapel | Kees Boot | Madelief Blanken
Jason says: “Believe it or not, two movies came out in Europe where the real Santa Claus was a murderous supernatural monster. Finland’s RARE EXPORTS zipped through the festival circuit and appeared in the U.S. at the same time it
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: James Felix McKenney
Starring: Angus Scrimm | Christine Spencer | Don Wood | Larry Fessenden | Reggie Bannister
Jason says: “I must admit – I’ve completely lost the ability to tell genuine evangelical Christianity from satire of the same. I say this not to disparage the people who find comfort and strength in their faith, just to point
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jacques-Rémy Girerd
Starring: Charlie Girerd | Dany Boon | Garance Lagraa | John Di Maggio | MatthewModine
Jason says: “MIA AND THE MIGOO isn’t a new film; it played the festival circuit and various markets two and a half years ago, including the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Apparently Matthew Modine saw it at one of
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Denis Velleneuve
Starring: Abdelghafour Elaaziz | Lubna Azabal | Maxim Gaudette | Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin | Rémy Girard
Diane says: “Did the director mean this to be political commentary, or was that just me? Recently orphaned twins leave Quebec to find family they didn’t know about in an unnamed (fictitious) Middle Eastern country. INCENDIES ultimately is a pretty
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jason Eisener
Starring: Brian Downey | Gregory Smith | Nick Bateman | Pasha Ebrahimi | Robb Wells | Rutger Hauer
Jason says: “HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN arrives with one of the most straightforward, descriptive titles for an action movie since SNAKES ON A PLANE. That simplicity serves it fairly well; it’s exactly the sort of 1980s exploitation pastiche the name
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